Read Kansas! Middle School - M-20 Cowboys, Cattle Drives, and Kansas

In this lesson students will learn the reasons for the cattle drives in post-Civil War Kansas. Students will read a series of historic images then place them in sequential order to tell the story of a cattle drive. This lesson is written for one class period.

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Kansas History, Government and Social Studies Standards:

Standard #4 Societies experience continuity and change over time.

4.2 The student will analyze the context of continuity and change and the vehicles of reform, drawing conclusions about past change and potential future change.

Kansas College and Career Ready Standards:

RH.6-8.1: The student cites specific textual evidence to support analysis of primary and secondary sources.

RH.6-8.2: The student determines the central ideas of information of a primary or secondary source, provides an accurate summary of the source distinct from prior knowledge or opinions.

RH.6-8.7: The student integrates visual information (e.g., in charts, graphs, photographs, videos, or maps) with other information in print and digital texts.

WHST.6-8.4: The student produces clear and coherent writing in which the development, organization, and style are appropriate to task, purpose, and audience.